One of the teens I work with was hit by a car last week. He was walking across a street in NE Portland. And as he crossed, he had just enough time to make eye contact with a driver speeding toward him before he jumped, smashed into the windshield and…
I’ll admit I think this “holiday” is pretty dumb, but how about some bikey love? Nothing quite like sharing a life on a bicycle… 🙂
Snot rockets, or farmers blows, or whatever the heck you want to call them, are an active person’s best friend. Eventually, if you bike or run or what-have-you for long enough, you will become a pro at this convenient (and eco-friendly: no tissue required!:) way to get rid of excess…
Of course: a magical combination of feeling disgruntled about work and reading a book about long-distance adventure has once more kindled the ever-flickering stasia wanderlust. (As if it’s not enough to have just gotten back from Puerto Rico…) * Hm. I’ve now tried a whole bunch of ways to explain…
I was surprised the other day to get an envelope in the mail with a return address of Oregon Randonneurs. First of all, I didn’t even know there was a rando mailing address; secondly, what could they possibly be sending me, anyway? It turns out it was the brevet cards…
Okay, not really. James and I bringing our bikes to Sacramento and biking all around does not actually engender a bike revolution. But it was still pretty awesome. (downtown Sacramento as seen from our bikes on the super awesome River Walk) Generally going home to Sacramento means a lot of…
My favorite type of bike ride is definitely a long, meandering, multi-day tour to beautiful natural places I’ve never been before. But a close, close second is a bike ride in my own city that I can sneak in to an otherwise normal day. Especially if I end up somewhere…
Today so far has been a day of dropped things. First, on the way to work, a man turned in front of me and pop! His wallet fell out of his back pocket and dropped to the ground. He didn’t notice, I guess, and kept biking, so I stopped to…
Who biked 100 miles for the first time in his life this weekend? This guy! (and look how happy he is about it!:) That’s right. For more than a year now, James has been talking about riding a century, but it’s never really worked out. Last summer his back was…
There’s something about biking that you really don’t get when you’re in a car: a heightened awareness of what’s going on around you. And when you take heightened sensory awareness and add the bike-induced ability to stop randomly, pull off the road, and actually look at things, you turn what…